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| Posted by: Seattle Zen
- [301361318] Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 19:07
Perhaps a separate thread for the on-going tensions regarding the death of Freddie Gray is in order.
Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, died on April 19 from a spinal cord injury, a week after he was rushed to the hospital while under police custody. Investigators still haven't revealed how Gray received the fatal injury, or if police caused it while arresting him.
Allegedly even the Nation of Islam, Crips and Bloods have set aside differences and joined forces to protest. |
| | | 2 | Seattle Zen
ID: 301361318
Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 19:18
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Baldwin will post about 20 photos of the violence, I prefer to see images such as this, poignant pieces reflecting loss.
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| | | 3 | Boldwin
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Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 19:35
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I remember when Obama also gave ISIS 'room to destroy".
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| | | 4 | Boldwin
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Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 19:38
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Yeah, I was really moved when the best Elija Cummings could come up with was 'It could have been worse".
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| | | 5 | Boldwin
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Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 19:48
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| | | 6 | Boldwin
ID: 112382716
Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 19:59
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If only libs could zone people out of their comfortable suburbs and back into these Dem controlled "No Go zones".
No hope, no property values, no safety, liberal dominated utopia.
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| | | 7 | Boldwin
ID: 112382716
Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 20:35
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15 injured police, some broken bones, one unresponsive.
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| | | 8 | Tree
ID: 161036918
Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 21:22
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eventually, Baldwin's hatred boils to the surface of every thread.
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| | | 9 | Boldwin
ID: 112382716
Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 21:29
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A reminder that the rioters are only representative of liberals...
They no more represent the black community than does Al Sharpton.
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| | | 10 | Boldwin
ID: 112382716
Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 21:53
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On the plus side that is one good looking mayor/woman/radical/Dem.
Gratitude for unexpected miracles.
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| | | 11 | Boldwin
ID: 112382716
Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 22:00
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Sharpton coming to Baltimore. He can cry me a river about why it's racist that no one wants to service the black neighborhood. Food desert, oh my! Let HIM build them a CVS.
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| | | 12 | Khahan
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Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 22:05
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Reports I've read indicate this is more a case of police stupidity or negligent than brutality. Eearly reports indicate he was cuffed and bound in the back of a police van but not secured. In other words he was given no way to support himself going around turns, over bumps. Plus we have no idea what condition he was in before he was put in the van.
Either way its not good for this police department. Regardless of his prior arrest record or of why he was arrested this particular time, this is no way to treat a human being.
Seems to be 2 possibilities - damage was done during a rough arrest or damage was done after the arrest in the van.
Easily could have been avoided. However it also seems to separate this case out from Eric Garner (personally I think the gj got this one wrong from the videos), Michael Brown (gj got it right) and Walter Scott (preliminary video makes it look like cold blooded murder).
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| | | 13 | Bean
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Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 22:15
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If there is any truth to the gang involvement, one has to wonder:
"How soon before the National Guard is called out?"
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| | | 14 | weykool
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Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 22:19
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gj?
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| | | 15 | weykool
ID: 472331022
Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 22:27
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I'm not understanding the censorship that is being allowed in this forum.
If something is supposedly in the "wrong thread" then the posts should be moved over to the new thread instead of deleting the posts under the guise of "moderating" the forum. If the mods here can't handle what is being said perhaps they should resign their position.
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| | | 16 | Perm Dude
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Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 22:50
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Exactly, Khahan (#12)
And in this sensitive time, being stupid can get you a riot in your town.
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| | | 17 | Boldwin
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Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 03:33
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Khahan
I am inclined to believe it wasn't an accident.
If the policeman is a psycho, a sadist or going extra-legal punishment all they have to do is stick you in the cell with a beast or rig you up wrong in the back of a paddywagon and take you for a rough ride.
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| | | 18 | Boldwin
ID: 112382716
Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 03:46
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Reminds you of 9/11.
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| | | 19 | Boldwin
ID: 112382716
Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 03:49
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I am guessing that when they have the funeral for that unresponsive cop, the police will have their back to the mayor when she shows her guilty face at his funeral.
I am also guessing the crips will be doing a Westboro.
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| | | 20 | Boldwin
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Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 04:05
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| | | 21 | Boldwin
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Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 04:33
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| | | 22 | Boldwin
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Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 04:41
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Obama is probably negotiating a deal with the crips to save us from their nuclear bomb program until just after he leaves office.
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| | | 23 | Boldwin
ID: 112382716
Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 04:45
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Bean#13
BTW the NG is there on the ground already and I've already seen an MRAP.
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| | | 24 | Boldwin
ID: 112382716
Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 04:59
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One youngster who made it home tonite.
The solution...then again if Lyndon Johnson hadn't destroyed the black family structure we'd see enuff of this to actually make a difference.
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| | | 25 | Boldwin
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Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 05:02
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Baltimore votes 87% Obama. How you like me now?
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| | | 26 | Boldwin
ID: 112382716
Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 05:11
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Liberals send you to war, tie your hands and drop you on the battlefield.
Baltimore cops with 'space for violence' orders from the mayor deal with nearly infinite armed assault while only making 27 arrests so far. Rules of engagement.
Good luck getting police protection in the future, Baltimore.
I am sure Obama has an alternate force in mind.
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| | | 27 | Gator
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Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 06:42
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It is ironic that Obama was to be the one to bring us together. This shows a total lack of leadership. Economically worthless and now it is proven his class warfare strategy has separated us racially more than ever. I believe Blacks have the talent to compete and exceed that of whites. One of the chief traits that helps entrepreneurship is creative thinking, which could arguably be said blacks possess over their white counter parts, but the constant propaganda by the liberals and black leaders that they can not succeed without government support has cause a mindset of failure. Many are able to overcome being told 24 hours a day that you cannot succeed and turn it to their favor. They take that chip on their shoulder and make it a driving force to succeed but most buy into the propaganda and develop a defeatist attitude. No group of people have been more victimized than the Jews, yet the mindset of their culture has allowed them to thrive despite their hardship.It is the mindset of failure perpetuated by black leaders and white liberals that has led to the economic disparity of the races.
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| | | 28 | Tree
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Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 08:38
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what the hell is post 9 trying to say??
and, aside from preaching hatred and division, what exactly is Baldwin's point?
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| | | 30 | Boozer
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Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 10:06
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"when you ignore whats going on around you, bad things happen"
perhaps the parents of these punks that destroyed their own neighborhoods and other parts of my City, could better use this advice.
I realize there is no chance that the responsibility will rest on those that actually burnt down the houses, elderly community center, and local businesses.
im sorry, but I don't to hear about "the struggle" today as the reason these idiots burnt their city down and stole everything in sight. As if no one else in the world has problems. so many good people in those neighborhoods lost so much last night.
Ive never been a fan of police here, they are A-holes to everyone without exception. But maybe last night the world got a good look at a small piece of what they deal with.
the message just went down in flames
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| | | 31 | weykool
ID: 472331022
Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 10:16
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and, aside from preaching hatred and division, what exactly is Baldwin's point?
The hatred and division is the hallmark of the left and more specifically Obama. Class warfare, stirring racial tensions, exploiting gender issues. Obama got his start as a community agitator.
He is only doing what he knows how to do.
Divide people to the point of rioting.
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| | | 32 | Seattle Zen
ID: 1610533022
Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 11:22
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Boldwin: On the plus side that is one good looking mayor/woman/radical/Dem.
You should have seen her when she was twenty three, that's when I met her back when we were both first year law students at U of M.
David Simon pleads for the rioting to stop.
Hundreds of Baltimore clergy linked arms and took to the streets in an effort to restore the peace. WBAL Reporter Deborah Weiner described the remarkable scene. “These are the church leaders who are putting themselves in harms way to end the violence… they are linked arm-in-arm… one gentleman is in front in a wheelchair.” “I asked the clergy what they thought of the State of Emergency that the Governor declared,” Weiner said. “They said there has been a State of Emergency way before tonight in Baltimore City, an emergency in poverty, lack of jobs [and] disenfranchisement from the political process.”
In an editorial, The Baltimore Sun called on “the thousands who have already marched in peaceful solidarity with the Gray family’s cause, and the many thousands more who have silently supported them, to take back the movement, to drown out those few who choose chaos over order.”
Orioles COO John Angelos discusses his perspective of what is happening in Baltimore.
All the conservative want to talk about is the burning police car and injured cops, never want to address the signs of the protestors, so very predictable.
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| | | 33 | Boldwin
ID: 112382716
Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 11:35
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What is this 'Fight the Power'?
The city is owned and operated lock-stock-and-barrel by Dem black politicians and black police commissioner.
What happened to Dem definition of government, 'that thing we do together'?
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| | | 34 | Seattle Zen
ID: 1610533022
Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 11:35
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7 positive things being ignored in the media coverage of Baltimore.
You can still get your hands on the latest mixtapes!
Two States of Emergency in Charm City.
Justice demands that participants in the riots are identified, arrested, and charged with whatever crimes they committed. Their unjustifiable violence endangered innocents, destroyed businesses, and harmed the economic future of largely black neighborhoods; they earned the frustrated contempt of Baltimore's mayor and members of its clergy and strengthened the hand of the public-safety unions that are the biggest obstacles to vital policing reforms.
But a subset of Baltimore police officers has spent years engaged in lawbreaking every bit as flagrant as any teen jumping up and down on a squad car, however invisible it is to CNN. And their unpunished crimes have done more damage to Baltimore than Monday's riots. Justice also requires that those cops be identified and charged, but few are demanding as much because their brutality mostly goes un-televised. Powerless folks are typically the only witnesses to their thuggery. For too long, the police have gotten away with assaults and even worse. The benefit of the doubt conferred by their uniforms is no longer defensible.
Baltimore has a history of issues as long as your arm, but one of the most important and I argue, easiest to address is police brutality.
To any reader who sees Baltimore smoldering and believes that this isn't the appropriate time to start focusing on police misbehavior, I'd have to agree: The right time to start would've been any time over the many years that it's been epidemic. Last week, I wrote about the brutality of police culture in there, drawing on the Baltimore Sun and other news sources that documented cops beating an elderly grandmother, a pregnant woman, and scores of others, prompting almost $6 million in police brutality settlements in the course of a few years.
Why hasn't Wolf Blitzer ever expressed on-air outrage at any of those cases or their sum? It is perfectly possible to laud police heroes, lament injured police officers, and excoriate bad cops for undermining their colleagues and their community. Imagine watching a rioter beat and kick someone on television and knowing that no one in the city would ever attempt to prosecute the attacker. That's the lived experience of many blacks in Baltimore, except that no one was recording when they watched brutality by police who still patrol their streets.
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